This Day in Showbiz History… July 14

ON THIS DAY IN 2018:

Actress Jane Lynch (pictured), who played nasty Sue Sylvester in TV’s Glee, turns 58 today, while actor Harry Dean Stanton, who died in 2017, would have been 92 today. Actor Matthew Fox, star of TV’s Lost and Party of Five, turns 52 today and Durban radio personality Jane Linley Thomas turns 39.

The Who began a US tour, opening for Herman’s Hermits, on this day in 1967, while the first colour TV broadcast of a sporting event (a horse race) was shown by America’s CBS network television on this day in 1951.

A Eurovision Song Contest winner, Come What May by Vicky Leandros, topped the South African singles chart on this day in 1972, staying there for four weeks. Just saying…